Reviews of 'Trails and Traces'
UK Vibe
"A warm and intimate album... Trails and Tracesserves as a resounding triumph for Nye Banfield”
****
Jazzwise
"A long awaited and richly rewarding debut from an important emerging voice."
****
Jazz Views
"A superb debut album by any standards, and one that features a fine sextet and a confident leader showing a maturity beyond his years"
Marlbank
"Banfield manages to make what could be a retro sound more meaningful to the jazz of today than most"
Live at The Marr's Bar,
Review by Ian Mann
(a Music Spoken Here Event)
"Banfield is a powerful and fluent tenor sax soloist, a skilled composer and a witty and highly personable interlocutor between songs. He’s a musician that I think we’re going to hear a lot more of."
****
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'Trails and Traces' Interviews
“The five tracks on his 2018 EP debut All Change reveal a smart and original composer who knows both the roots of modern jazz and where he intends to take his own music, with his cool Wayne Shorter-inspired tenor sax very much a key ingredient in that story.”
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